Col de Montgenèvre

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Col de Montgenèvre
Col de Montgenèvre

Col de Montgenèvre

Compass direction west east
Pass height 1854  m
region Department Hautes-Alpes region Piedmont
Watershed DuranceRhone Dora RipariaPo
Valley locations Briançon Cesana Torinese
expansion Route national 94 N 94 Strada Statale 24 Italia.svg Strada statale 24 del Monginevro
Mountains Cottian Alps
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Col de Montgenèvre (France)
Col de Montgenèvre
Coordinates 44 ° 55 '51 "  N , 6 ° 43' 24"  E Coordinates: 44 ° 55 '51 "  N , 6 ° 43' 24"  E

The Col de Montgenèvre ( Italian Colle del Monginevro ) is a French pass at 1854  m in the Cottian Alps . Until 1947 it formed the border with Italy . Today it is a few kilometers further east.

It connects the upper Susa valley ( Piedmont region / metropolitan city of Turin ) with Briançon ( Hautes-Alpes department ) in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region .

The pass, known as Matrona in ancient times, was part of the Via Domitia and was an important link between the central Rhone Valley and the Po Valley as early as Roman times . According to the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus , it is said to have been named after a Matrona who suffered an accident there would have.

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Remarks

  1. Ammianus Marcellinus, Res gestae 15, 10, 6.